LENOX, MA-- A Standing Witness is a collection of powerful, serious, and important political poems by Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, composed by Grammy-winner Richard Danielpour. Both attended its performance July … » Read

The Louisville Orchestra’s initial “Creators Corps” is a racially- and gender-balanced trio of composer/performers, each of whom has a reputation for stretching musical boundaries and reaching beyond them into society. Funded … » Read

Jonathan Heyward will not join the Baltimore Symphony as its new music director until the fall of 2023, but he is already introducing himself to the city. At a recent meeting with reporters, he shared information about his background and … » Read

Orchestras around the world have embraced the popularity of live-with-film concerts. They are reliable revenue generators, typically selling-out, and are proving to be vehicles with which to introduce new, younger audiences to orchestra … » Read

The Boston-based New England Philharmonic , a 45-year-old all-volunteer ensemble specializing in contemporary music, has spent the past season auditioning candidates to succeed longtime music director Richard Pittman, now emeritus. Its choice … » Read

Louisa May Alcott was born in 19th-century Massachusetts into a family whose intellectual liberal circle included Whitman, Emerson, and Thoreau. Educated and opinionated, her semi-autobiographical novels, starting with Little Women , were written … » Read

While ecstatic at the prospect of a full-fledged return to live performances, The Washington Post’s music critic Michael Andor Brodeur laments the slow but seemingly steady demise of the printed program. Whereas “happy ushers” … » Read

The one-off concert in Caramoor’s Spanish Courtyard on July 21 was titled for its trio of composer/performers--Caroline Shaw, Angélica Negrón, Raquel Acevedo Klein—but might have more aptly been called “Songs from … » Read

On July 22, Austrian conductor Stefan Soltesz, age 73, collapsed on the podium during a performance of R. Strauss’s opera The Silent Woman at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and died hours later at the hospital. “We are losing a … » Read

In January 2022, the National Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gianandrea Noseda launched a project to perform and record George Walker’s five Sinfonias, a series of works written between 1984 and 2015. The first release features … » Read